Timpy

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by Timpy 4y ago
I don't feel like this is lying ir false speech or anything. I am from the suburbs of a medium sized city but distinctly not from that city, as my home is across across the river and in a different state. Still when I travel and people
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by Timpy 4y ago
Before the pandemic I was working in an office with a 45 min / 1 hour commute one way with lots of traffic. My tiny little office shared a wall with my senior dev, I literally couldn't be closer to him, and we still only communic
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by Timpy 4y ago
These things made me move away from Gnome. In gnome3 occasionally the login screen would require me to click the screen and drag upwards to get the login prompt. Customizing any if these things was always a hacky workaround. I'm very h
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by Timpy 5y ago
If IntelliJ was as fast as vim, as lightweight as vim, preinstalled on every machine that I use, fully accessible over ssh, as scriptable as vim (or had perfect vim emulation as a plugin), free, I could install all of my preferences with ju
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by Timpy 5y ago
I recently discovered VisiData and I'm on a huge TUI kick right now because of it. I know GUIs have their advantages and I use them, but opening a file in vim or VisiData at light speed feels so good compared to firing up IntelliJ or
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by Timpy 5y ago
People write books about things, I don't think they're preying on anybody. It looks like all the material is free on the site anyways but you can pay for an ebook if you want.
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by Timpy 5y ago
The host Rollie Williams has a graduate degree in climate change, maybe his style isn't for everyone but he's clearly knowledge and passionate about the subject.
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by Timpy 5y ago
I'm not refuting you at all, but I had never heard of Wawa and I had to google it. Maybe if I grew up in a Wawa area I wouldn't get the infatuation with convenience stores in Asia.
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by Timpy 5y ago
I'm assuming the author is from the US. Convenience stores in Japan (and Taiwan) fill a niche that's desperately missing in the US: they're actually convenient. I can't get good tasting, cheap, fast, not-unhealthy food a
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by Timpy 5y ago
I don't know, I couldn't get through a chapter of Anna Karenina but it's still a great opening line. “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
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by Timpy 5y ago
This is a weird tip I think I could only share with the hacker news crowd. Once I learned about gut bacteria I started thinking of my cravings as something external to me. Like instead of saying "I'm hungry and I'm in the moo
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by Timpy 5y ago
I'm not a fishing expert but I think officially owning those islands would affect their Exclusive Economic Zone. If the fishing there is good they could turn a profit even if administering the islands costs some yen. https:/&#x2
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by Timpy 5y ago
It's a shame this was posted on the rpg stack exchange and not the world building stack exchange, I understand they're moderating it to keep it on topic but they're suppressing what could be some really great ideas and conver
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by Timpy 5y ago
I just got home from a Meetup event and opened up hn to see this post. I had a great time meeting new people with common interests. I've tried Meetup in different cities and mileage varies. I didn't have such great luck in the
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by Timpy 5y ago
Mistborn is a great trilogy, if you read book 1 and decide it's not for you then it's a fine stopping point. Book 3 is another great stopping point, either way you're not getting into a massive commitment like the Wheel of T
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by Timpy 5y ago
Richard Stallman would be very upset if he saw this comment
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by Timpy 5y ago
I read somewhere that the Mongolians believed flowing water was sacred and they had a taboo about defecating near it. For the wrong reasons they accidentally prevented cholera. If avoiding sleeping under trees prevents tree falls, lightni
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by Timpy 5y ago
I remember a TED-ed animated video that claimed that isolated cultures prospered because they had peace, one of the three examples was Japan. They had an animation of a cute little rabbit practicing the katana. I couldn't believe som
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by Timpy 5y ago
This seems to be Apple's design philosophy. I can't change the direction of my touch pad scrolling without affecting my mouse scrolling, I had to download a third party app for that. Their defaults are so stubborn, if you don&#x27
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by Timpy 5y ago
I memorized kanji in the order laid out by James Heisig in "Remembering the Kanji." It's a guide to creating mnemonics for kanji, it has a strict learning order. You can probably read the introduction on the preview on Amaz
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by Timpy 5y ago
I use a memory palace and a system of mnemonics all the time for things I want to commit to long term memory. I can speak Japanese and read 2,000 kanji thanks to memory palace techniques. Still, the cognitive load for scribbling down a gr
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by Timpy 5y ago
You're right, and after two seconds of reflection I realized I watch longer videos on YouTube as well. I tried summarizing the difference between YouTube and other streaming services but it's more nuanced. The part of me that st
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by Timpy 5y ago
I think the thing that pulls people in to YouTube is antithetical to YouTube Originals. If I'm going to spend 40 minutes on YouTube it's going to be a series of low commitment videos anywhere from 4 to 10 minutes long each. If I
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by Timpy 5y ago
It took me a second to realize what I was looking at, but this is a very cool toy to play with. When I click the same bubble twice in a row it clears the entire field of bubbles. Is this intended behavior? Seems like I should be able to u
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by Timpy 5y ago
Calorie is not the only metric for health
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by Timpy 5y ago
The whole thread was interesting but this comment had me cracking up: >Same experience here. Linux folks not only are our most frequent bug reporters, but they're also the best at documenting their issues and sometimes just... give
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by Timpy 5y ago
> I used a loop of the DVD bouncing logo to test stream quality. This is a beautiful touch, if somebody happened across his testing in the middle of the night they wouldn't suspect anything was amiss.
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by Timpy 5y ago
I'm a digital nomad right now and I check every single box on the "Who is the average nomad?" except Mexico City, but I had it in mind to go there in the new year. I'm leaving my current stay tomorrow, after 72 days. I
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by Timpy 5y ago
Optimizing your time so that you can live your life the way you want to is a great idea. I daydream of having a personal chef so I can spend more time reading, studying, or any other activity that brings meaning to my life. But let's
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by Timpy 5y ago
I ran one then opened the wikipedia page to verify it, I couldn't find the links. List of common misconceptions -> Denzel Washington Allegedly these pages are only 2 degrees apart by way of Hal B. Wallis, Orson Welles, and Humphrey

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